Dec 08, 2016

It snowed (+rained, +freezing rained) today, but that didn’t stop me from riding down to Brooklyn Pharmacy to pick up a couple of prescriptions (slowly riding down; there was a fairly stiff north wind all day, and in the ~30 minutes I was out it cooled the ground down enough so that a layer of ice was starting to develop under the snow on my return trip.)

Nov 21, 2016

This frame (which originally was a crosscheck) was hit by a car and the TT and DT were bent immediately aft of the HT. The downtube got a lovely crease in it, and when I chopped off most of it (so I can maybe use it as part of a new frame?) I was presented with this lovely ovoid cross-section.

I am mulling whether to chop the tubes off flush with the HT and use it for another frame, but It’s not as if I’m short of tubing in the first place.

Nov 19, 2016

Now (or at least after I put a front wall + door into the thing – I’d LIKE to put a level floor in as well but that’s not strictly necessary) I can move my bike mess out of the basement and have the ability to make racks + frames without having my work area in two different locations.

Nov 18, 2016

Nov 16, 2016

Blue/Red, bicycle parking, and the pylon that lifts the cables for the aerial tramway high enough to clear the freeway (and the housing) that sits between the OHSU complex on the hill and the OHSU building that’s right behind me.

(It’s at least 100 bicycles locked up in that bike lot on the far side of the trolley line, and another 30 or so locked up on the racks alongside the building behind me. A much better use of space than a huge old parking garage would have been.)

Nov 09, 2016

A 10" diameter root that’s spent the last 10 years shoving the last concrete slab in our sidewalk up. The concrete slab is gone, and soon too will this root (and then I can lay brick on the last bit of the sidewalk.)

Nov 08, 2016

But slowly, thanks to an impressively stiff headwind on the hill between Troutdale & Multnomah Falls (with the addition of a flat tire and discovering that my frame pump seems to be running out of puff in its old age.)